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SERRANOS FA MILE. The St. Louis folk are springing good things very regularly at Bawthorne. Their last clean., up was made on Tulla Fonso and over tha fillys win tha ring was hit hard. What it lost on that occasion, however, was not a marker to what was paid out after tbe first race was run and won yesterday by Nickey D. This same Nickey D. started once before as Mickey D at St. Louis, and in that race displayed fine speed leading a fast horse like Frank Bell for the first three-eiehths of a mile. The name was new to the local bookmakers a mo3t wise bunch and they immediately offered 10 to 1 against it. There was plenty of money in the ring to ba bat on the good thing, and it was placed in a quiet way, and point by point Nickey D s price shrunk until post time, when 3 to 1 was the best price in tho ring. The good thing acted like an old timer at the post end when the barrier went up he was in the first flight. Jenkins had the mount and lying second to the stretch ho then shot to the front and for an instant was clear of his field and appeared to be winning with ease, but Marzella cams again under punishment in the stretch atd put Nickey D. to a drive, and staggering and all out he barely managed to win by a nose. But that was enough. The sixth race, a dash of a mile, was contended f i r by the best balanced field of the day and it furnished a really good contest, Serrano and Mizpah came together again in this event and the talent could not choose between them so they went to the post equal favorites and each heavily backed at 9 to 5. Serrano proved the better of the two and won witii something to spare, but in doing so had to Btep a mile in 1:39 and demonstrated himself to be a horse of great speed and courage. He set his own pace and at one time in the stretch Mizpah got to and passed him, but under the whip he responded gamely and making Mizpah look like a coward ha won like a sure enough racehorse. The second, fourth and fifth raco3 looked easy to pick, and in each instance the public choice came home in front and alone. The second was at six and one half furlongs for two year-olds, and Thrive was plainly in a soft spot. He was a 3 to 10 favorite and won all the way. Crocket was the pick in the fourth, and she beat Harry Nutter, Semper Eadem and Helens Pet like cracking sticks. The fifth was a steeplechase over tbe short course, and with 144 pounds on Chenier, it seemed a shame to take the even money which the "bookies" offered. Some quoted as good as 6 to 5. So far as a contest was concerned, there was nothing to tha race. Chenier took the lead at tbe first fence and was naver afterward in trouble, winning hard held by six lengths from Gypceiver. The yoarlings to bo sold at tha Stock Yards Monday and Tuesday evenings, August 21 and t 22, by Wojdard and Suankhn, will ba ready for imp ction Sunday next and ladies aud gentleman aie invitoj to call at tha Stock Yards on j that day and examine them. Tna horses in training to be sold Tuesuay evening, August 22, at iha same place by Woudard and Shanklin can bo teen at the Hawthorne racetrack. Tney induuo tha entire string of George J Loug now at Hawthorne, several of Talbot Brotners and otitis.
